Description
Inge Stone’s parents were German immigrants who migrated to California when she was a child. In this interview, she talks about growing up during the Great Depression before starting work prior to the war. Her first job was working in a ceramics factory. Eventually, she married and moved to Burbank, California where she worked at a Lockheed Martin plant helping to build P-38 Lighting. After several months in Southern California, she returned to Richmond to work with her mother in the shipyards as a pipe fitting team. She recalls war bond drives, car pooling to work, shipyard newspapers, and watching her mother as she christened a ship. She also speaks about her family’s experience during the Korean War, when her brother was POW/MIA as a serviceman.